Most Americans are aware of the football coach/child molester at Penn State. Located in a part of Pennsylvania known as “Happy Valley”, Penn State provides favored Pennsylvanians with its own socialist empire. One can be born, educated, employed, retired, and...

People go to college to learn. If we can learn just as much without going to college, we shouldn’t. Unless, we want to waste a lot of time and money. Everyone asks, with varying degrees of seriousness,...

This sort of graph can be found in any number of places. The numbers are so constant that some reliability may be reasonably assumed. Since 2008, over four million jobs have disappeared. It’s easy to...

The New York Times, of all institutions, published an article by Arthur C. Brooks pointing out that conservatives actually are happier than liberals. Reading between the lines, we see that conservatives are happier than liberals...

As the bubbles of more obvious uselessness are threatened with bursting, defenses go up. Those in threatened bubbles hire professional opinion-influencers in the media bubble to let taxpayers and legislators know that “People need to be able to access our...

The United States is now so productive that unemployment no longer brings automatic poverty. The unemployed are able to get two years of unemployment income. That is augmented by food stamps, heating assistance, medical assistance,...

Recently, the nearby winner of a fifteen million dollar lottery prize had two auctions to turn some of what she’d bought with her winnings into ready cash. The auctions were amazing. Virtually new oriental rugs,...

There are lots of concerns about the economy, especially in the United States and Europe. There are few predictions. Here are some: 1. Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy will continue to decline. France and England...

Lots of people are looking for alternatives to our economic system. Some are in favor of governments printing more money. Others want a gold standard. Sizable groups want silver money. Lots and lots of people...